Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

A Unity static quicklist item that opens up a new window would be nice. This would fire up firefox -new-window.

A proper rationale for this change is explained in comment #5 below. Moreover, according to comments by didrocks on bug #709707, we need to patch up desktop files to make up for the dropped 'Open a new window of this application' feature in Unity. My patch to fix that in Unity was rejected, and hence we had to follow the procedure of adding this feature to only those applications which support multiple instances.

Once we get a UIFe for both the string additions, then we will upload the change for 'Open a New Window', with the 'Open a New Tab' change following soon. Both these changes have been announced to the ubuntu-doc and ubuntu-translators MLs, and the translations for both of these have been set up on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations/Wanted/FirefoxDesktop . Moreover, the translated strings for 3 locales have already been merged with the desktop file in the attached debdiff. The 'Open a New Tab' change later will also incorporate the translations for both the strings done till that point of time.

1. Work away on your netbook, have one or more browser widnows open
2. decide to navigate to a new workspace to transition to a different task set
3. navigate to the works space
4. open a browser window

Result:
with no middle button, you can't open the window, if you click the browser you end up going back to the old workspace

This happens to me daily, and is infuriating.

This will need a UI Freeze exception, so we should do it asap to avoid impact there
It may also need a FFE

I feel it would be better to have both 'Open a New Tab' and 'Open a New Window' options in the quicklist. What do you say? If you give me the go-ahead I'll make the change on the debdiff, notify dpm, and follow the UIFe procedure.

It has been requested to include a quicklist option to "Open a new Tab". However I think this is redundant since you can do this from File->New Tab and also from the new tab button present always. Hence I suggest the following quicklist for firefox.

Open a new window
Open firefox in Safe Mode
Switch between Private/Normal mode
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Firefox Web Browser
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Unlock from Launcher
Quit